Hurricanes famous quotes

Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.
-- Al Gore

#Dirty #Weather #Hurricanes

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.
-- Al Gore

#Change #Feelings #Hurricanes

Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.
-- Andy Borowitz

#Earthquakes #Hurricanes #Made

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina,
-- Arne Duncan

#Thinking #New Orleans #Hurricanes

Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
-- Bob Ney

#Summer #Gasoline #Hurricanes

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.
-- Charles Rangel

#Hurricanes #Strikes #Harder

Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,.
-- Charlie Crist

#Years #Trying #Hurricanes

On the film sets of 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' I feel safe. It's like you're in the center of the hurricane, but outside is where it starts to get chaotic.
-- Chaske Spencer

#Moon #Safe #Hurricanes

I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.
-- Christina Ricci

#Years #Causes #Hurricanes

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Christian #Hurricanes #Quiet

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
-- David Satcher

#Country #Impact #Hurricanes

Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane.
-- Don Kelly

#Cities #Hurricanes #Traffic

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.
-- Douglas Brinkley

#Hurricanes #Natural #American History

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
-- Eddie Vedder

#Mean #Tree #Hurricanes

Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.
-- Ellen Tauscher

#Together #Damage #Hurricanes

I wasn't going to let a little thing like a hurricane keep me from wearing my bathing suit.
-- Eva Longoria

#Littles #Suits #Hurricanes

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.
-- Henry Cisneros

#Heart #Decision #Hurricanes

You wouldn't cancel your insurance policy in the middle of a hurricane, and you shouldn't sell silver when it takes a tumble. Like any insurance, silver's value will pay out over time, not day by day.
-- Howard Ruff

#Pay #Hurricanes #Silver

My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Wings #Hurricanes #Teeth

This will remain so after Hurricane Katrina disappears from the front pages of our newspapers. Long ago. it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. '... It did not know because it did not care... until some flagrant outrage on decency and the health of the community aroused it to noisy but ephemeral indignation.
-- Jacob August Riis

#Long #Community #Hurricanes

Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.
-- James Carville

#New Orleans #Government #Hurricanes

You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it.
-- James Green

#Two #Stronger #Hurricanes

To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western Civilization-any kind of civilization-disappears.
-- Jared Taylor

#Civilization #Race #Hurricanes

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane
-- Jeffrey McDaniel

#Wind #Hurricanes

Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take you.
-- Jim Caviezel

#Littles #Never Quit #Hurricanes

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
-- John Green

#Rain #People #Hurricanes

It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.
-- Kenneth Williams

#Storm #Hurricanes #Arthur

As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes
-- Kerry Emanuel

#Climate #Limits #Hurricanes

The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Dark #Light #Hurricanes

She has the majesty of hurricanes and explosions.
-- Lauren DeStefano

#Majesty #Hurricanes #Explosions

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.
-- Marshall Faulk

#Kids #Thinking #Hurricanes

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
-- Marty Meehan

#Iraq #Hurricanes #Burden

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.
-- Michael Fish

#Hurricanes

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.
-- Naomi Shihab Nye

#Hurricanes #Sometimes #Save Me

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
-- Natalie Jeremijenko

#Florida #Environmental #Hurricanes

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.
-- Norman Jewison

#Winning #Hurricanes #Actors

Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.
-- Paul Gillmor

#Gasoline #Devastation #Hurricanes

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, butGod did.
-- Richard Baker

#New Orleans #Hurricanes #Hateful

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.
-- Shemar Moore

#Men #Training #Hurricanes

I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.
-- Steve Buyer

#Country #Believe #Hurricanes

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.
-- Taylor Swift

#Mean #Years #Hurricanes

Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.
-- Thomas Carper

#Records #Hurricanes #Needs

If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to -- that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims -- send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers.
-- Tim McGraw

#Prayer #Red #Hurricanes

Dennis Erickson drove to my home and asked me to become a Miami Hurricane. There was no way in hell I wasn’t going.
-- Warren Sapp

#Home #Way #Hurricanes

I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.
-- Wentworth Miller

#Training #Months #Hurricanes

Ill never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.
-- Cedric Richmond

#Men #Tragedy #Hurricanes

What was it like working with John Carmack on Quake? Like being strapped onto a rocket during takeoff – in the middle of a hurricane.
-- Michael Abrash

#Rockets #Hurricanes #Middle

Coffee takes on an almost ritualistic meaning. I learned that from being on hurricane patrol for a year in the North Atlantic.
-- Nathan Lowell

#Coffee #Years #Hurricanes

Roger “Hurricane” Wilson is the real deal!
-- Walter Trout

#Real #Roger #Hurricanes

Looking at the individuals who suffered the most during the hurricane, you could see that those with underlying medical problems were at greater risk.
-- Richard E. Besser

#Medical Problems #Risk #Hurricanes

I had an approach where everything that's happening it should be as though it's an experience for somebody. So if you're experiencing a hurricane, if you're experiencing a car crash or whatever it is, you're only experiencing as yourself, you're not experiencing it from some objective point of view.
-- Jeff Baena

#Views #Car #Hurricanes